SITE VISIT
5des0065 cells 10/11
heidi saarinen
am: Tate Modern – Turbine Hall
pm: Natural History Museum
Monday 18th October 2010
11am MEET AT THE ENTRANCE (side entrance, top of ramp),
TATE MODERN
Re-Creating Cells
You need:
Camera (video camera optional), tape measure, domestic cells dimensions &
notes, sketchbooks, pencils and drawing equipment, ID card & l imagination.
Entrance is free. There is a charge for special exhibitions if you want to see
something separately.
Agenda for the day:
AM – Tate Modern – Turbine Hall – meet 11am – investigate and analyse the
site. Place domestic cell dimensions and record using photography, sketches
to form initial ideas. These will be developed in studio.
PM – Natural History Museum, South Kensington, 2pm appointment
booked. See links for directions to both museums. Meet at the entrance.
THE SITE
We have moved the site for CELLS to the Turbine Hall in the Tate Modern,
London. This vast space is going to get filled with cells (through your drawings
and design development). You will design habitable spaces (working cells,
comfort cells, sleep cells, study cells, social cells etc.,).
You have worked on CELLS at home for over a week. These investigations will
start to move into the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. You will allocate a ‘cell’ within
the space (on the ground, against a wall, above the space or beyond). This cell will
use the dimensions and observations from your domestic cells. They will morph
into new spaces, but are based on the domestic cell space and general cells
research (scientific, biological, spatial..).
Lectures and tutorials will take place next week and we will discuss and make
decisions on Monday at the site visit.
(These instructions are also uploaded on Studynet)
Links:
Getting there:
TATE MODERN
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/information/#getting
http://www.tate.org.uk/ MAIN SITE TATE MODERN
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/getting-here/index.html
Unilever exhibition TATE MODERN
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/unileverseries2010/room1.shtm
http://londonist.com/2010/10/art_review_flower_seeds_tate_modern.php
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/index.html
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/darwin-centre-visitors/index.html
DARWIN CENTRE
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Sunflower Seeds installation - Turbine Hall - now closed to visitors
Photo credit Art Review
Sunflower Seed Exhibition in the Turbine Hall - Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's installation, Sunflower Seeds, the 11th in the Unilever Series - in the Turbine Hall covered the floor area of this vast space. Until this weekend, visitors could walk, sit, lay on the 'sunflower seeds' (they are ceramic, hand made..). Then Tate Modern decided to close this exhibit to visitors - now the installation can only be viewed from a distance (due to health & safetu issues with 'dangerous dust' from the ceramic objects).
Closely related to our theme of cells (see earlier blog on sunflower seeds), this would have been very interesting for the design project. Sadly, we can only view the art installation - and space - from afar.
